Looking studiously at the floor during a recent interview, Ben Stiller came off less the Hollywood \”It\” dude than the cute, shy guy you had a crush on at Jewish summer camp.
John Barrymore\’s career can be divided into four acts.
I am in a cult.
Not one with an Indian twist, nor a homegrown one full of fervid believers waiting for a modern-day Shabtai Tzvi to fly us all to a New Jerusalem. No, my cult is more like that of those UFO suicides in Rancho Santa Fe waiting for the spaceship to take them away to a far better place.
My cult is called Hollywood.
As Labor Day fast approaches, colleges around the country are welcoming the class of 2002. Some of the wide-eyed freshmen now struggling with books, bedding, and brand-new computer hookups are the products of a Jewish day-school education.
The new Israeli consul for communications hopes to create dialogue between Israel and Jewish communities in the United States.
When Steven Spielberg first saw Adam Goldberg in the television series \”Relativity,\” the director scribbled a three-word memo to himself: \”intense, funny, Jewish.\”
When the Jewish Women\’s Theatre Project askedSusan Merson to write its first commissioned play last year, theactress/writer recalled a bizarre TV news item.
The big political story that\’s emerged from last week\’s California primary is not the Davis-Lungren gubernatorial race nor the high-profile propositions. The big story is yet unfolding and takes us to a small corner of our town, in the east end of the San Fernando Valley. At this writing, former Assemblyman Richard Katz is only 33 votes behind City Councilman Richard Alarcon in a race to replace veteran state Sen. Herschel Rosenthal. While awaiting the inevitable recount, observers of the new American ethnic politics are peering over the map of Senate District 20 block by block for what is being done right — and wrong.
Lisa Cholodenko\’s edgy debut film, \”High Art,\” won a screenwriting award at Sundance and made the Directors Fortnight at Cannes.
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